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... notes , and several of Migne in the Patrologia Latina , Vol . 21 which Wright does not note , have been a few emendations have been made . changes attention is called in the foot I owe many thanks to Professor Cha of Yale University ...
... notes , and several of Migne in the Patrologia Latina , Vol . 21 which Wright does not note , have been a few emendations have been made . changes attention is called in the foot I owe many thanks to Professor Cha of Yale University ...
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... notes , now it quickened into tones rich and swelling , and now , with stronger trump , advanced into the full burst of har- mony , the depth of which stirred delight in our ears , and brought the first joys of sleep to our eyes . For ...
... notes , now it quickened into tones rich and swelling , and now , with stronger trump , advanced into the full burst of har- mony , the depth of which stirred delight in our ears , and brought the first joys of sleep to our eyes . For ...
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... notes 285 into inseparable chains . The bat , bird of double sex , held the rank of cipher among small birds . These living things , although as it were in allegory moving there , seemed to exist actually . Fine linen , with its white ...
... notes 285 into inseparable chains . The bat , bird of double sex , held the rank of cipher among small birds . These living things , although as it were in allegory moving there , seemed to exist actually . Fine linen , with its white ...
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... note , but within speaks to its hearers of the mystery of loftier understanding , so that , the waste of outer falsity cast aside , the reader finds , in secret within , the sweeter kernel of truth ? Sometimes poets combine historical ...
... note , but within speaks to its hearers of the mystery of loftier understanding , so that , the waste of outer falsity cast aside , the reader finds , in secret within , the sweeter kernel of truth ? Sometimes poets combine historical ...
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... streams temper the madness of Bacchus ; let Thetis offer herself as a wife to Lyæus , and the wife curb the tyranny of the husband . Let a common , 5 ΙΟ tation note the wealth of the mind , the the METRE VIII ] 75 The Complaint of Nature.
... streams temper the madness of Bacchus ; let Thetis offer herself as a wife to Lyæus , and the wife curb the tyranny of the husband . Let a common , 5 ΙΟ tation note the wealth of the mind , the the METRE VIII ] 75 The Complaint of Nature.
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¹ Reading ALAIN DE LILLE another's anvils appearance Aristotle avarice Bacchus banished beauty belly Ben Jonson birth body chariot chastity cithara clothed cloud coin color command Complaint of Nature countenance Cupid delight diadem divine dost drunken earth Emending evil face faith false falsehood fame favor fear flattery flatulence flood garments gave gender Generosity Genius gifts glory Glossary golden grace grief hæc hair hand harmonious head heaven Hippolytus honor human Hymen Jonson kiss labor light lust lyre madness maiden majesty marked marriage marvelous masculine METRE Migne mind mother mystery Nature PROSE neith ness night numbers palace Ph.D Phoebus picture poets poverty praise predicate pride reason rejoices riches scorned Scylla seemed shine shipwreck silence sleep song sorrow speech splendor spring stars stones stray suffer sweet tears thee thine things thirst thou tongue tunic Tyndaris Venus vices virgin virtue wandering wanton winter Zephyrus
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Page 3 - The sex of active nature trembles shamefully at the way in which it declines into passive nature. Man is made woman, he blackens the honor of his sex, the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender. He is both predicate and subject, he becomes likewise of two declensions, he pushes the ;, laws of grammar too far.
Page 40 - ... that in the shallow exterior of literature «° the poetic lyre sounds a false note, but within speaks to its hearers of the mystery of loftier understanding, so that, the waste of outer falsity cast aside, the reader finds, in secret within, the sweeter kernel of truth?
Page 49 - I do not deny the essential nature of love honorableness if it is checked by the bridle of moderation, if it is restrained by the reins of sobriety...